• StudSpud The Starchy
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    4 hours ago

    Fun fact - the old English word for strawberry is streawberige, etymology is light on this but it could have the same etymology as straw, as in, it is strewn (literally “that which is scattered or strewn”), based on how strawberry plants grow across the ground. Related to Proto-Indo European *stere meaning “to spread”.

    Literally “strewn-upon-the-ground berry”.

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      3 hours ago

      when I lived in Europe sometimes species wild strawberries would appear in my garden beds, such tiny little berries, very little taste but they edible, they are very pretty and the robins love them

      I read somewhere the strawberries we cultivate and eat are native to America